MCC settles litigation through Quebec Labour Board conciliation process
In August 2023, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) ended the employment of John Clarke and Anicka Fast, who had been serving as MCC country representatives for Burkina Faso.
MCC Peace and Justice office celebrates advocacy wins in 2024
This year we saw a few concrete examples of the success of the government responding to you and the issues you care about.
Bizuayehu Abera of Ethiopia follows in the footsteps of Joseph in the Bible
I have been the Tigray relief project coordinator for Meserete Kristos Church Development Commission (MKCDC) for the past four years. Because of this work, people gave me a new name.
MCC executive directors respond to concerns of former workers
♪ As the executive directors of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada and MCC U.S., we want you to know that we are listening to the concerns recently raised by alumni, staff and others, and are holding them with humility and compassion. We are practicing prayerful discernment that will allow us to work with wisdom and grace toward resolution and healing.
Myanmar: “Being riskless is not always the will of God”
EVERY DAY, WHEN Mr. Khong awakens in Myanmar, he has two challenges: One, avoid being captured, conscripted or killed by the military junta that is struggling to hold onto its power to govern. Two, get food to people who have fled to remote mountainous areas of the country to avoid the reaches of the junta.
MCC challenges people to donate 10,000 school kits in August
In August, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) challenges people to donate 10,000 school kits—full of school supplies—for 10,000 children around the world. This School Kit Challenge has the extra incentive of a school kit photo contest.
What good does it do to plant one tree?
What good does it do to plant one tree, I asked myself, as I visited with farmers in Mwenezi District, in south central Zimbabwe last September. Everywhere our Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Communications team went, farmers were sure to tell us they planted a tree that year.
MCC responds to earthquakes in Syria
As the tragic toll of the Feb. 6 earthquakes continues to unfold in Syria, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is working with long-term partners in Aleppo and surrounding areas to meet urgent needs.
A real, live piggy bank
Ilero and Egadu needed a friend. The couple argued a lot about not having enough money to feed and educate their three children. They hoped Friend would help them, but they had no idea how much.
An ‘egg’-cellent gift this Christmas
Chickens are one option that Canadians may choose to give to people around the world this Christmas by purchasing them from MCC’s Christmas Giving guide. Canadians who buy chickens—$13 buys enough for two families—will have their gifts doubled, up to $33,000 by generous donors.
The complex realities of a global hunger crisis
Nyawar Mapieny Gathoul’s baby and siblings are hungry. Nyawar is strong, resilient and hardworking. But the family has only enough food for one meal a day.
MCC partners in Ukraine work to meet physical and spiritual needs
In the silence that lived between the deadly warnings of air raid sirens, the sound of a small choir, singing a song of praise, echoed out of a church sanctuary in western Ukraine. Just the night before, Anna*, administrative coordinator for MCC Ukraine, had absent-mindedly hummed a few bars of the song during an evening tea break at the church.
SYRIAN CHURCH PARTNERS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND HOPE
In the old city of Aleppo, Syria, Pastor Ibrahim Nseir stands on the pile of rubble that used to be his church. What was once a building where his congregation worshiped is now a pile of broken stones and dust. It’s a sunny February day, the bright sky a stark contrast to the destruction on the ground.
LIVING THE MESSAGE OF PEACE IN A CONFLICT ZONE
When armed men arrived at a Light of the Gospel church in the Donetsk region of Ukraine they searched the basement for weapons. There were no weapons; instead one of the men found a file with the names of people the church is assisting.